Senior Planner

Principal Function: The Senior Planner manages highly complex and fast-paced planning assignments, and performing advanced technical and administrative work, supervising and monitoring community development activities, programs and projects, ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Acts on behalf of the Town as the liaison for the U.S. Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Surveys (BAS), Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA), New Construction Program (NCP) and other initiatives.
• Performs and manages complex and sensitive professional planning projects, research and analysis.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with local, state and federal laws.
• Provides overall management of planning-related issues.
• Administers, coordinates, directs and manages the implementation, development and deployment of the Town’s Geographic Information System (GIS), including defining requirements, tasks and resource assignments.
• Develops and provides detailed ArcGIS training program(s) to Town Staff, and provides technical assistance as needed.
• Prepares, plans and manages the development of strategic, short-and long-term planning projects; gathering, interpreting and preparing data for studies, reports and recommendations; coordinating department activities with other departments and agencies, as needed.
•      Advises the Director of Development Services on all planning related matters.
•      Assists in budget preparation and administration, and monitors the expenditures for the Department.
•      Assists with the application, interpretation and enforcement of local, state, and federal codes, ordinances and regulations, including, but not limited to: zoning and subdivision regulation, construction standards, and municipal and land use regulations.
•      Assists with explaining, interpreting and enforcing the requirements of all related Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals and Town Council approvals.
•      Conducts reviews of various development applications, including but not limited to: subdivision plats; zoning map amendments; commitment amendments; development plans; variances; special exception uses; and other land use related requests.
•      Conducts extensive research in specific or general project areas.
•      Writes and presents formal and technical reports, working papers, and correspondence.
•      Reviews architectural elevations and land use applications to ensure compliance with requirements such as materials, use, bulk, placement, and parking ratios.

•      Prepares reports, ordinances and resolutions for the Plan Commission, BZA, and/or Town Council.

  ·      Works with Town Attorney on planning-related projects, contracts, annexations and other projects as needed.

  ·      Researches, develops, implements and/or reviews, interprets and recommends changes to specifications, standards, policies, procedures, codes, regulations, and ordinances that relate to the department’s goals, objectives, policies and procedures.

  ·      Participates in local, regional and state initiatives, task-forces, events and related professional committees.

•      Reviews legal descriptions for right-of-ways, easements, plan cases, and annexations.

  ·      Identifies community problems, issues and opportunities in particular neighborhoods that could be mitigated through better community planning.

  ·      Evaluates adequacy of community facilities to meet current and projected needs.

  ·      Participates in project review meetings with various town departments.

  ·      Attends and presents planning items at Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, and Town Council meetings, as needed.

  ·      Manages, guides and directs day-to-day work of associate planning staff.

  ·      Provides assistance to staff regarding enforcement of municipal code, zoning and subdivision regulations.

  ·      Maintains strict confidentiality regarding Town issues, and sensitive economic development projects.

  ·      Thorough knowledge of and ability to make practical application of department and OSHA safety policies and procedures.

  ·      All other duties as assigned by the Development Services Director and their designee.